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Discussion - Potential piefed instance in the future? (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 days ago by fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Hello m@teys,

I've been waiting for this a long time (half a year), personally. After seeing the surge in piefed instances, i.e. blahaj, .ca, .zip, quokk.au, and .world creating their own instances, and clients guaranteeing future piefed support, we've been thinking about potentially opening an instance in the future. Not a guarantee, just an idea. This isn't a voting thread, just a discussion. Later on we'll actually vote on this.

Do note that this thread will not guarantee an instance; we are discussing a hypothetical. Suggestions? Ideas? Criticisms? make your voice heard.

Have a good week!

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A comment in this thread by @WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com put it quite well:

rimu has said he’ll make it more neutral

I'll believe it when I see it.

It's an odd thing - the Lemmy devs are notoriously opinionated and intolerant, and are constantly castigated for it, but I don't recall ever seeing even a single hint of their opinions or even their intolerance baked into the Lemmy software.

Piefed, meanwhile, is a direct reflection of the dev's biases right from the start, and with everything from the curated subscription lists to the karma and private voting, seems designed explicitly for the purpose of empowering bias.

Say what you will about Dessalines and Nutomic - at least they keep their biases to their own instance and out of the Lemmy software. And further, they appear to have gone to some lengths to make the software as neutral as possible - not only not reflecting any specific bias but limited in ways that make it difficult for it to even be used to impose bias.

And the same can NOT be said for Rimu and Piefed.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

private voting

After having discussed with a few people, Rimu agreed to drop the private voting. The system will switch to two votes button

Low quality communities

This is now opt-in, and configurable by admins

https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/channel/5-admins/topic/Low.20reputation.20communities/near/1872

[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

this is kind of where i’m at. i’d like a lemmy alternative bc i am not a fan of the red fash, but piefed ain’t it chief.